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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

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Randy Milholland @choochoobear.bsky.social · 41m

If the dead don't want to be spoken of poorly then they should have been better people in life.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

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Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · 1h

LET’S GO, NEW YORK CITY!
VOTE for the City you deserve.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#Revolution

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

Let's hope this is the start of a trend.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 4h

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 21h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 18h

If you see a lot of political memes that have an out-of-place sepia filter, it's because the Studio Ghibli filter OpenAI added to ChatGPT was too popular and polluted their database, and will force a "nostalgic Ghibli sepia filter" onto images without asking. The recent White House Halo pic is one.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 19h

A Japanese organization representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Toei Animation and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorized use of their IP

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 19h

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM

*That’s* the headline.

(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

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Perry Bible Fellowship @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 23h

An urgent message is sent by delivery raven (a la Game of Thrones). The royal recipient is concerned. Below cursive script, crude raven scrawl has been added to the scroll: “feed food gud ravin”

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 18h

Some of the very best and most important political journalism of late has come from Lex and the team at Teen Vogue. Follow them all wherever they go.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 20h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18h

1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters

2. Don't get distracted from point one

3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage

4. Don't be old as fuck.

Go forth and do likewise

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.

www.politico.eu/article/zohr...

Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise

Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.

www.politico.eu

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 21h

New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇

lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA

Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.

lapublicpress.org

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Yet the media is covering the Trump Shutdown as if it's a huge political problem for *Democrats* — ironically an attempt to pressure Dems into helping Trump staunch the bleeding of his own popularity by rescuing him from his own shutdown.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

One thing that I think we need to talk about around shame is that shaming is the lowest stakes and most acceptable option for handling this kind of behavior, and if you're going to ignore shame you're really not going to like the other options for how societies handle this stuff.

I don't want to push people further down the wrong path by condemning them. And I'm all for paths of redemption and letting people walk those paths.
Yet I do think it's not only appropriate but absolutely crucial to be ashamed of shameful things. And I don't think you solve problems without naming them, so I don't believe that naming equates to condemnation. I'm told that naming people Nazis because of their alignment with Nazi ideals and tactics condemns them as irredeemable, which leaves them isolated with no path for redemption. This would seem to suggest both that 1) it is the job of others to redeem people engaged in abuse and harm, and that 2) the only way to get careless people to care is to tell them they're already OK and nothing they're doing is wrong. That doesn't seem right; I would hope that nobody well-meaning is suggesting that. I don't think that is the lesson history teaches us about Nazism is that Nazis weren't accommodated and validated enough. I suspect the people issuing warnings about shame are not saying that, if they are well-meaning. I think they're saying something else. I sure hope so.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 9d

"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name.

I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."

Screenshot of an online store product selection. It shows a man in the same hat twice, one in dark grey, one in light. The product is misspelled as "Gary" instead of grey.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

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grateful gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

Another family, the Hares, also moved from Abilene, Texas, to Russia to shield their three sons from what they say are harmful elements of American culture.

“It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62, told NBC News via a video call from the family’s new home in Ivanovo, Russia.

Russia has strict laws against the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships,” which have in practice banned public displays of LGBTQ identity, including wearing or posting the rainbow flag on social media.

They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying.
Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord's son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said.
The couple went to the police and the local court to file complaints about their lost money and with their concerns that they had been swindled, but say they have received no help from law enforcement officials. NBC News contacted Domodedovo police for comment but did not receive a reply.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

ridiculous. you show some respect to grand negus zek

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 2d

I'm three degrees of separation from Trump himself, so if I were to become a drug dealer, the Pentagon would have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Several lawmakers said Thursday that the Pentagon relayed that it did not need to know the identities of those being targeted in the attacks, or if those killed had been trafficking drugs.

“What they told us is they have to show a connection to a designated terrorist organization or their affiliate, and as long as they can show that connection, they believe they are authorized to strike,” Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-California) said in an interview.

But such connections could be as much as “three hops away” from a known drug trafficker, Jacobs told reporters after the briefing.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 2d

I've seen a lot of people saying "it's about brand visibility" or "Fortnite collabs with everyone."

As a business owner, that's bullshit. Literally everything you publicize and take money from is a moral decision. I've walked away from ad deals because I didn't approve of the company offering them.

My Nintendo News @mynintendonews.com · 2d

Harry Potter is reportedly the next Fortnite collaboration

Epic Games have collaborated with a lot of major franchises with Fortnite and that's not set too change anytime soon as leakers have revealed that the Harry Potter franchises is apparently coming to the popular game. The Harry Potter…

Harry Potter is reportedly the next Fortnite collaboration

Epic Games have collaborated with a lot of major franchises with Fortnite and that's not set too change anytime soon as leakers have revealed that the Harry Potter franchises is apparently coming to the popular game. The Harry Potter collaboration is set to launch for Chapter 7 of Fortnite which is scheduled for release in early December.

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2d

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 2d

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

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